FILE - In this July 5, 2011 file photo, the juror chairs sit empty in the media room at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Fla., after the jury found Casey Anthony not guilty in her murder trial. On Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, the names of the jurors in the Casey Anthony trial were made public for the first time since they acquitted the Florida mother on charges of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Photo: Joe Burbank, Pool / AP

T. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A court released the names of the jurors in the Casey Anthony trial for the first time since they acquitted the Florida woman of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

The "cooling off" period a Florida judge cited in delaying the release for three months ended Tuesday, and the names of 12 jurors and three alternates were released by the Pinellas County Clerk of Court.

After the trial ended in July, Judge Belvin Perry said he wanted some time to pass before the names were made public because some of the jurors had received death threats. ::snipping2::

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The names of the jurors who determined Casey Anthony's fate when they found her not guilty of first-degree murder this past summer were revealed this morning.

But even with their identities revealed, there may remain one big, lingering question: Why did they reach the verdict that they did?

None of the jurors — all Pinellas County residents — is obligated to talk to the media about the six weeks they spent serving on Anthony's trial in Orlando.The jurors are Joan Meier, Raymond Screen, Linda Bills, Harriet White, Brian Berling, Kimberly Kimball, Kathleen Nighland, James Kearns, Ronald Robertson, David Angelo, Mary Fuhr and Jennifer Ford.

Alternate jurors whose names were not previously released are Elizabeth Jones and Heather Feuerhake.

The panel already turned down one opportunity to speak to the media collectively.

Juror identities are usually released in Florida after a verdict is rendered.

But, in Anthony's high-profile case, Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry postponed the release of the juror names for three months as a "cooling off" period.

In his July 26 order, Perry expressed significant concern over the safety of the jurors, noting that they "returned a verdict which was not viewed in a popular light by a large segment of the public." ::snipping2::

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I worked with a Mary Fuhr in Pinellas County at an animal boarding facility. I hope we see pics of these folks, so I can tell if it's her or not. She was fired because she withheld info on her application that she had spent time in jail. I don't know what her crime was tho. I'll have to wait to see, I guess.

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No child should have duct tape on their face when they die. There's no reason to put duct tape on the face after they die. ~ Dr. G

I just noticed that I spent 11 days, 18 hours and 7 min, reading and discussing the Casey Anthony case and I was not a member of the jury. Why are only non-jury members interested in justice for sweet little Caylee Anthony?

If the jurors followed Judge Perry's instructions and admonitions, jury members ONLY discussed the case, including evidence presented in trial, AFTER the trial ended and before the verdict was reached, then the collective time spent by jurors, discussing the case, rests somewhere between the time it takes to have a long lunch and watching a movie.

I wonder what the collective time is for reading and discussing the case by every person interested enough to be on Scared Monkeys?

Time sometimes has a way of fogging the memory. Not mine. I will never forget the injustice done in this case and I will do whatever I can to ensure it does not happen again. It is time to leash the lawyers and make them accountable.

I worked with a Mary Fuhr in Pinellas County at an animal boarding facility. I hope we see pics of these folks, so I can tell if it's her or not. She was fired because she withheld info on her application that she had spent time in jail. I don't know what her crime was tho. I'll have to wait to see, I guess.

Wish there was a way to legally and publicly discredit every one of these jurors. They are a discredit to children everywhere in the world.

The names of the jurors in the Casey Anthony murder trial in the death of her daughter Casey Anthony are supposed to be released today. But will the names of the Anthony jury, better known as the Ship of Fools, who inexplicably declared Casey Anthony “not guilty as sin” in the murder of Casey? The names were originally withheld from the public for their safety.

EXIT QUESTION: How many people will shoe up to the jurors homes for Halloween dressed like Casey Anthony … Trick or Treat.

I hope lots!

OMG...lmao. Ok who on the board live in Florida? http://Surprise!Wish I did........

A bill approved Tuesday in the Michigan Senate by a 35-0 vote comes after the acquittal of Casey Anthony in the death of her daughter, Caylee, in Florida. The child was not reported as missing for about a month after her disappearance in 2008. ::snipping2::

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A bill approved Tuesday in the Michigan Senate by a 35-0 vote comes after the acquittal of Casey Anthony in the death of her daughter, Caylee, in Florida. The child was not reported as missing for about a month after her disappearance in 2008. ::snipping2::

A bill approved Tuesday in the Michigan Senate by a 35-0 voteThis speaks volumes. Ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A bill approved Tuesday in the Michigan Senate by a 35-0 vote comes after the acquittal of Casey Anthony in the death of her daughter, Caylee, in Florida. The child was not reported as missing for about a month after her disappearance in 2008. ::snipping2::

A bill approved Tuesday in the Michigan Senate by a 35-0 voteThis speaks volumes. Ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That one juror moved to Michigan to hide, remember? Older I think.

I just came in to post this same story. Wonder which one moved to my home state? I would love to go trick or treating there - as CAYLEE!

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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. - John Stuart Mill On Liberty, 1859- George Bernard Shaw

The husband of alternate juror Elizabeth Jones answered the door at their home. He said she was at work. "I'll leave your card with the pile here," Mike Jones said. "But I don't think she is going to want to talk." He added that since she didn't deliberate, "she doesn't have a whole lot to say."

In most cases, the blinds or drapes were closed and no one answered. Dogs could be heard barking inside some of the homes.

At another home, a woman who answered the door said the juror doesn't live there.

Anthony was released from jail a couple of weeks after the trial ended. She is now serving probation on an unrelated check fraud charge at an undisclosed location in Florida.

She was deposed earlier in October for a civil lawsuit that accuses her of ruining another woman's reputation. Anthony told detectives in 2008 that her daughter had been kidnapped by a nanny named Zenaida Gonzalez. The child's body was later found in a wooded area not from the Anthony's home in Orlando.

Detectives have said no such baby sitter existed. But there is an Orlando woman named Zenaida Gonzalez and she sued Anthony over the name confusion.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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Video at link. ::snipping2::"It is time that ... steps be taken to examine whether the laws are too broad and whether the release of certain information is causing more harm or whether the public's and media's right to know outweighs the harm," Perry wrote.

In all, 17 jurors were seated for the trial. Anthony was found not guilty of charges in connection with Caylee Anthony's death, but she was found guilty of four counts of lying to investigators.

WESH 2 News has decided not to reveal the jurors' names unless they come forward to comment.

Because of media coverage surrounding the case, jurors were selected from Pinellas County in May and brought to Orange County, where they were sequestered throughout the six-week trial. Since the verdict was announced, one juror and two alternates have identified themselves in media interviews. A few others have spoken anonymously.

The jury foreman declined to be interviewed at this time when contacted by a Nancy Grace producer on Tuesday, but he said the jury did what they could based on the evidence presented and he was surprised by the backlash against the verdict.

None of the other jurors had returned phone calls from producers late Tuesday morning. According to the Associated Press, most of jurors had their blinds or drapes closed and did not answer when reporters knocked on their doors

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